PlayStation’s top five most-played games of 2025 are exactly the...

Danganronpa, a game series I can never reliably spell, has just passed 10m sales, maker Spike Chunshoft has announced. Best described by a 2023 Danganronpa...

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What we’ve been playing, Christmas Day edition – “hope I don’t disgrace myself”

adminDecember 25, 2025

25th December Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we’ve been playing. This...

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EA shareholders approve Saudi Arabian buyout, leaving only the US Government able to block the deal

adminDecember 23, 2025

EA shareholders have approved the proposed $55bn acquisition of the video game giant by Saudi Arabia and private equity firms, leaving only the US government...

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Blades of Fire and Hideo Kojima showed me I can still be surprised by a video game and that originality is essential

adminDecember 23, 2025

I am pretty confident in my ability to judge video games. I’ve been playing them (increasingly badly over more recent years!) for almost 40 years...

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“Is it okay for video games to be this good?” – developers tell us their favourite games of the year

adminDecember 22, 2025

Before we tell you know what we think, and before we get to what you think, we thought we’d do something a little bit different...

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“Passionate response” to Tomb Raider 2013’s Switch port could mean Rise and Shadow also come to Nintendo’s consoles

adminDecember 22, 2025

The rebooted 2013 Tomb Raider made its Switch debut just a matter of weeks ago, and thanks to the “passionate response” from the community, port...

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Here’s Hideo Kojima interviewing himself, and interviewing Stranger Things’ creators, the Duffer Brothers (but not at the same time)

adminDecember 21, 2025

Hideo Kojima has popped up on Wired’s (fantastic) Tech Support series (did you know that we’re closer in time to Cleopatra than Cleopatra is to...

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Epic boss Tim Sweeney confirms Fortnite will not release on iOS in Japan due to Apple’s alleged “obstruction and lawbreaking”

adminDecember 20, 2025

Fortnite will not be returning to iOS in Japan next year “as promised” because, according to Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney, Apple has allegedly launched...